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King’s Alum Peter Freeby Sets Sights on New Mobile RPG App

Peter Freeby is a digital designer and self-described “freelance COO,” and his latest passion project will turn into a full-time gig in January 2023 – a startup mobile app for tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs) called Tabletop Town. Tabletop Town is “an app to play Dungeons and Dragons and eventually other tabletop role-playing games on your phone,” Freeby explains, “asynchronously and mobile-first.” 

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MCA Musical Theater Department Presents "Normal? A New Musical"

The King’s Musical Theater Department performed their show Normal? A New Musical from Friday, Feb. 11 to Saturday, Feb. 12. Coming in at a length of about an hour and a half, Normal? offered a lively show full of music, comedy and wonder. At its core, Normal? is a “handmade” musical created “by King’s students, for king’s students.”

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A Broadway Reset: the Shutdown of Performing Arts during COVID-19

On March 12, 2020, Broadway abruptly shut down, preventing 16 shows from opening and closing over 41 theaters. According to The New York Times, the initial shutdown was only supposed to last until April 12, but the opening date kept being pushed back. Now, Broadway is scheduled to keep its doors closed until May 2021.

According to Broadway League, more tickets were sold to Broadway shows in the 2018-2019 year than the 10 professional NYC metro-area sports teams combined, including the Mets, the Yankees and the Rangers. On top of the number of tickets Broadway sells, they contributed another additional $14.7 billion dollars to New York City’s economy.

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